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SubjectRe: [V9fs-developer] [PATCH] Integer underflow in pdu_read()
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 09:26:51PM +0200, Tomas Bortoli wrote:
> The pdu_read() function suffers from an integer underflow.
> When pdu->offset is greater than pdu->size, the length calculation will have
> a wrong result, resulting in an out-of-bound read.
> This patch modifies also pdu_write() in the same way to prevent the same
> issue from happening there and for consistency.

What does cause the calls of pdu_read() in such conditions and shouldn't *that*
be dealt with?

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